Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prologue for the Opening of the University Theatre at Yale University," done by the Yale University Press, and dated April 1927, has only recently been received at Widener Library. The Prologue is written inverse by Lee Wilson Dodd at the request of G. P. Baker '87. Only 40 copies of this book were printed, for private circulation...
...winners of the Woodrow Wilson Prize Essay Contest with total awards of $57,000, will be announced at the annual dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, to be held in the Hotel Astor in New York, on December 28, the anniversary of Mr. Wilson's birth. Two contestants will receive $25,000 each in recognition of the merit of their articles on "What Woodrow Wilson Means...
...speech, free men and Fremont." A resounding, if somewhat vague, slogan was Theodore Roosevelt's cry in 1912: "We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord." This was far less successful than the gluttonous Republican shout of 1896: "McKinley and the full dinner pail!" And the 1916 Wilson motto: "He kept us out of war!" One of the most successful slogans of all time was Warren G. Harding's "Back to normalcy," embarrassingly illiterate but far more euphonious than "Back to normality" would have been...
There follows the Delegate of Czechoslovakia, keen, supple Foreign Minister Edouard Benes (Benesch) who casually observes that he sees nothing very new about the Soviet plan. The late U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, says Benes, envisioned wholesale scrapping of armaments...
This was composed of exactly the same members as the parent Disarmament Commission, except that the Russian and U. S. Delegates announced themselves unable to participate. Comrade Litvinov finally consented to sit as an "observer"; but the U. S. Delegate, Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, had inflexible instructions from Washington...